You can feel the influence oozing off of it. For never having heard the album before, I loved the piss out of it. Standouts: Bone Machine, Break My Body, Gigantic, Where Is My Mind Bonus points for actually having a good sounding 80s snare drum.
The 3 piano ballads put my ass to sleep…. bitch
You can feel the influence oozing off of it. For never having heard the album before, I loved the piss out of it. Standouts: Bone Machine, Break My Body, Gigantic, Where Is My Mind Bonus points for actually having a good sounding 80s snare drum.
Flawless production and instrumentation. One of the few albums that came close to what the Beatles were doing in the mid-late 60’s. I applaud them for being so pro-harpsichord. Having said that, I found the back half to not be as strong as I remembered, with one song I’ve never liked. Standouts: Care of Cell 44, Beechwood Park, Brief Candles, This Will Be Our Year Turd In the Caviar: Butcher’s Tale
Love the raucous party vibe. Would probably enjoy it even more if it was on in the background at Catfish Jones or some other dungeonesque bar. Any time B.B. is yell-singing or banging away on Lucille it is electric! I can only take so much blues though. It gets my hackles up anytime I hear the band start playing the standard I-IV-V 12 bar blues structure. P.S. - This album reminds me of when B.B. and his wife were going through hard times in their marriage. She wasn’t a fan of all his drinking and he thought she was cheating on him. After a couple of hard years, she saw him perform this concert at the Regal and fell back in love with him. As a show of her devotion, she went to get B.B.’s name tattooed on her body: a B on each ass cheek. Later that night she called B.B. up to the bedroom. When he entered, she pulled down her pants for the unveiling. He gave the tattoo a look over and said, “who’s Bob?”